Google scholar is a search engine that indexes metadata of full text scholarly literature. Scholars can create their profiles
Why do you need a Google scholar account?
- Provides a very simple way of collating your publications
- You can track your citation metrics
- Gives you visibility as an author
- Collectively gives institutions visibility
- Improve on our web ranking
Follow these simple steps to create an account
- Log in to your corporate email
- Go to Google scholar
- Click on “My profile” on the left hand corner
- Fill in the required fields
- Click on next
- Select articles you have authored from the suggested list
- To find missing publications, search using article titles or DOIs
- You can also add missing publications manually if required.
- Click next
- Select the option of “Email me updates for review
- Click on “Make my profile public”
NB: Remember to validate the address – (you’ll receive an email asking you to do this)